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This publication offers an in-depth and rigorous research of the Wigner remodel and its variations. they're offered first inside of a context of a common mathematical framework, after which via purposes to quantum mechanics. The Wigner rework used to be brought by means of Eugene Wigner in 1932 as a chance quasi-distribution which permits expression of quantum mechanical expectation values within the related shape because the averages of classical statistical mechanics.

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